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A Guidance Document Regarding the use of Cost Recovery Systems for the Delivery of Waste from Ships has been added to the Knowledge Library under the GloLitter Partnerships Project.

Growing portfolio of projects to tackle marine plastic litter from sea-based sources unified under new OceanLitter Programme.

Businesses operating in the shipping and fisheries sectors are invited to express their interest in joining the Marine Plastic Litter Global Industry Alliance (GIA)

A major global project to help the maritime transport and fishing sectors in developing countries move towards a low-plastics future, the GloLitter Partnerships Project has been granted an extension by the main donor, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).

The GloLitter Latin America Regional Task Force has concluded a week-long programme of work to develop twinning arrangements across the region at a meeting hosted by GloLitter Lead Partner Country, The Federative Republic of Brazil.

India, a Lead Partner Country (LPC) under the GloLitter Partnerships Project has now published its National Action Plan (NAP) for management and prevention of sea-based marine plastic litter.

The Maritime SheEO conference took place in Mumbai, India on 21 November 2023 featuring a range of speakers from the maritime industry and related fields.

After the success of the first GloLitter Global Webinar on the Development of Sea-Based Marine Plastic Litter National Policy and Legislation…

The GloLitter Partnerships Project is continuing its series of Global Webinars aimed at capacity-building to address sea-based marine plastic litter issues.

A Regional Task Force Meeting has been taking place in Kenya as part of the GloLitter Partnerships project to reduce marine plastic litter from maritime transport and the fishing sectors.

On 28 September 2023, the World Maritime Day was celebrated around the globe with the theme of "MARPOL at 50 - Our commitment goes on".

IMO and the Republic of Korea have signed agreements to boost Official Development Assistance funding for RegLitter, to tackle marine litter in East Asia and to develop and pilot test a tailor-made web-based e-navigation service in the Philippines.